
ACCOUNT OE THE PROCEEDINGS 



PRELIMINARY TO THE ORGANIZATION 



lltassarjwsetts Institute ai C^jmnlogg; 



LIST OF THE MEMBERS THUS FAR ASSOCIATED, 



AN APPENDIX, 

LINING PETITIONS AND RESOLUTIONS IN AID OF THE OBJECTS OF THE 
COMMITTEE OF ASSOCIATED INSTITUTIONS OF SCIENCE AND ART. 




BOSTON: 
PRINTED BY JOHN WILSON AND SON, 
22, School Street. 
1861. 




ACCOUNT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 

PRELIMINARY TO THE ORGANIZATION 

OF THE 
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assa^sttte Institute of C^ttokgg; 



LIST OF THE MEMBERS THUS FAR ASSOCIATED, 



AN APPENDIX, 

CONTAINING PETITIONS AND RESOLUTIONS IN AID OF THE OBJECTS OF THE 
COMMITTEE OF ASSOCIATED INSTITUTIONS OF SCIENCE AND ART. 



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BOSTON: 

PRINTED BY JOHN WILSON AND SON, 

22, School Street. 

1861. 



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PROCEEDINGS. 



The Committee of Associated Institutions of Science and 
Art, in their memorial to the last Legislature (House Doc. 
13), indicated in a brief and general form the claims of In- 
dustrial Science and Practical Education as leading objects 
in the plan of collocated institutions, for which they asked 
a reservation of certain of the Back-Bay lands. As, how- 
ever, no definite organization had been framed embracing 
these great interests in a practical shape, the Committee 
were satisfied for the time with resting their argument in 
behalf of this part of their plan upon the obvious public 
importance of such enlarged means of practical instruction 
in the Arts and Applied Sciences as were suggested, and 
upon an assured conviction that the community would 
liberally co-operate in any wisely methodized scheme for 
promoting them. 

Believing that the failure of their previous appeal to the 
Legislature was, in part at least, due to the incompleteness 
and vagueness in which they had presented this depart- 
ment of their general plan ; and finding, that, in spite of 
their ill success, an earnest and increasing interest was 
very generally felt for the establishment of an Institution 
devoted to Industrial Science and Education, — the Com- 
mittee determined on taking such steps as were practicable 
towards the organization, in a preliminary form, of an Insti- 
tution of this character. 



Accordingly, at a meeting held May 28, 1860, the Com- 
mittee assigned to a Subcommittee, consisting of W. B. 
Rogers, E. B. Bigelow, J. M. Beebe, M. D. Ross, and C. H. 
Dalton, the duty of preparing and reporting the plan of an 
Institution designed for the advancement of the Industrial 
Arts and Sciences and Practical Education in the Com- 
monwealth. 

In fulfilment of this purpose, a scheme of organization 
was framed by the Chairman, and embodied in a Report, 
presenting, in some detail and comprehensiveness, the 
" Objects and Plan of an Institute of Technology, including 
a Society of Arts, a Museum of Arts, and a School of In- 
dustrial •Science." This Report, accepted by the General 
Committee, was read by the Chairman at a public meeting 
of gentlemen interested in the subject, held by appoint- 
ment, at the Rooms of the Board of Trade, on the 5th of 
October, 1860 ; and, on vote, was approved, and its publi- 
cation recommended. 

Thus sanctioned, the pamphlet, setting forth the objects 
and plan of the proposed Institute of Technology, was dis- 
tributed through the City and State among persons who 
were thought most likely to be interested in the subjects 
to which it relates ; and, in order to elicit the opinions and 
invite the co-operation of those best qualified to judge of 
the practical merits of the plan, the pamphlet was accom- 
panied by the following circular : — 

Boston, November, 1860. 

Dear Sir, — In sending you the accompanying pamphlet, set- 
ting forth the objects and plan of an Institute of Technology pro- 
posed to be established, if practicable, on the Back-Bay lands in 
Boston, we beg to request that you will give it your early and 
thoughtful attention. 

In our view of the great advantages which the industrial interests 
and practical education of the Commonwealth would derive from 
such an Institution, we cannot but hope that our plan will so 



approve itself to your judgment as to win your sympathy and active 
co-operation. 

It is proposed, at an early day, to hold a meeting in this city for 
the purpose of adopting measures preliminary to the organization of 
the Institute. Of this you will be duly notified ; and we trust that 
your interest in the subject will secure us the benefit of your 
presence on the occasion. Meanwhile, it will give us great pleasure 
to be allowed to number you among the prospective members of the 
Institute, and to have the influence and authority of your name, as 
well as the advantage of your counsel, in connection with the under- 
taking. » 

Should it be your wish to unite with us, please indicate the class 
of subjects, as mentioned under the heads of " Committees of Arts," 
in which you would feel most directly interested ; addressing your 
reply to the undersigned. 

William B. Rogers, Chairman of Committee. 

The numerous responses to this circular, approving the 
objects and plan of the proposed Institute, and offering co- 
operation in its several departments as laid down in the 
Report, satisfied the Committee that its leading features 
were practically suited to the great industrial and educa- 
tional objects in view, and that the general scheme was 
likely to command the hearty and helpful approval of the 
community at large. 

After an interval of about two months from the distribu- 
tion of the pamphlet, the Committee proceeded to call a 
meeting for the purpose of effecting a .preliminary organi- 
zation of the Institute, confining the invitation to those 
only to whom the Report had previously been sent, and 
who were supposed to have made themselves acquainted 
with the different features and bearings of the plan thus dis- 
tinctly submitted to them. It will be seen that the follow- 
ing circular, calling this meeting, was framed with the view 
of testing still further the deliberate approbation and inte- 
rest which might be felt in regard to the proposed Institu- 
tion : — 



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Boston, Jan. 7, 1861. 

Dear Sir, — You have been made acquainted, through the 
pamphlet and circular which have been addressed to you, with the 
general " Objects and Plan" of the Institute of Technology, 
proposed to be established, if practicable, on the Back-Bay lands 
in this city. 

It is now proposed to hold a meeting in Mercantile Hall, 16, Sum- 
mer Street, on Friday evening, 11th inst., at half-past seven o'clock, 
for the purpose of adopting measures preliminary to the organization 
of the Institute, and in furtherance of a petition to the Legislature 
for a Charter, and a portion of the Back-Bay lands. 

As it is of the highest importance that the industrial and educa- 
tional interests of the Commonwealth be amply represented at the 
meeting, we earnestly beg that you will favor us with your presence 
and counsel on that occasion. Should you be unable, however, to 
attend, but be desirous of co-operating, as a member of the Insti- 
tute, in the great public objects we have in view, please affix your 
signature to the accompanying statement, and return the same, prior 
to the day of meeting, to the undersigned. 

William B. Rogers, Chairman of Committee. 
1, Temple Place. 

Ja>tjary , 1861. 

The undersigned approves of the objects and general plan of the 
proposed Institute of Technology, and desires to have his name 
placed on its list of prospective members. 

Previous to the day of meeting, replies were received 
from a large number of those to whom the pamphlet and 
circular had been addressed, requesting that they might be 
enrolled among the prospective members of the Institute, 
and otherwise indicating their hearty interest in the ob- 
jects and action of the Committee. 

The meeting was held at the appointed time ; and after 
an exposition, by the Chairman, of the previous action and 
future purposes of the Committee, and interesting addresses 
by Prof. Peirce, Rev. Dr. Gannett, and others, in behalf of 
the Institute, a preliminary organization was established 



by adopting the following form of Association, to which the 
names of those present were affixed : — 

"We the subscribers, feeling a deep interest in promot- 
ing the Industrial Arts and Sciences as well as Practical 
Education, heartily approve the objects and plan of an In- 
stitute of Technology, embracing a Society of Arts, a Mu- 
seum of Arts, and a School of Industrial Science, as set 
forth in the Report of the Committee ; and we hereby asso- 
ciate ourselves for the purpose of endeavoring to organize 
and establish in the city of Boston such an Institution, 
under the title of ' The Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 
nology/ whensoever we may be legally empowered and 
properly prepared to carry these objects into effect." 

The following resolutions were then adopted: — 

" Resolved, That a Committee of twenty, with power to 
increase their number, be appointed to represent the inte- 
rests and objects of the Association, and to act generally in 
its behalf, until it shall be legally incorporated and regu- 
larly organized under the title, and according to the pur- 
poses, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

" Resolved, That said Committee be instructed to use its 
best efforts, in co-operation with the Committee of Associ- 
ated Institutions of Science and Arts, to obtain from the 
Legislature an Act of Incorporation for the Institute, and 
to secure a grant of land on the Back Bay for its use, and 
for that of other institutions devoted to the Practical 
Sciences. 

" Resolved, further, That this Committee be requested to 
frame a Constitution and By-laws for the government of 
said Institute in its several departments, and to submit the 
same to the consideration of this Association, whensoever 
we may be in readiness, and properly empowered, to organ- 
ize formally as the Institute of Technology." 



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Subsequently, on motion, the Chairman of the meeting 
was added to the Committee, to act as its Chairman. 

The members of this Committee are as follow : — 



W. B. ROGERS, Chairman. 



J. M. Beebe. 
E. S. Tobey. 
S. H. Gookin. 

E. B. BlGELOW. 

M. D. Ross. 

J. D. Philbrick. 

F. S. Stoker. 

J. D. RtJNKLE. 

C. H. Dalton. 
E. C. Cabot. 



J. B. Francis. 
J. C. Hoadley. 
M. P. Wilder. 
C. L. Flint. 
Thos. Rice. 
John Chase. 
J. P. Robinson. 
F. W. Lincoln, Jun. 
Thos. Aspinwall. 
J. S. Dupee. 



LIST OF MEMBERS 



MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 



THUS FAR ASSOCIATED. 



William B. Rogers Boston. 

Samuel H. Gookin 

Marshall P. Wilder 

M. D. Ross 

Alex. H. Rice 

E. S. Tobey 

James M. Beebe 

Dr. S. Cabot, jun 

G. W. Pratt 

Amos Binney 

Dr. S. Kneeland, jun 

Charles L. Flint 

B. S. Rotch 

J. D. Philbrick 

Geo. B. Emerson 

Rev. R. C. Waterston 

Erastus B. Bigelow 

Chas. H. Dalton 

Alfred Ordway 

Dr. Henry I. Bowditch 

James L. Little 

John Lowell 

R. M. Copeland . . r 

Dr. B. J. Jeffries 

Thos. T. Bouve 

Dr. A. A. Gould 



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John Cummings, jun Woburn. 

George TV". Bond Boston. 

Dr. Geo. Hayward „ 

E. B. Elliot „ 

Andrew H. Ward, jun „ 

Chas. McBurney „ 

Mertoun C. Bryant Lowell. 

William Boott Boston. 

Francis Alger „ 

R. B. Forbes 

O. H. Perry Lowell. 

F. P. Appleton „ 

H. N. Bigelow Clinton. 

John Chas% Chicopee. 

Hon. R. C. TVinthrop Boston. 

Henry A. Peirce ,, 

Hon. F. W. Lincoln, jun „ 

Benj. Sewall ., 

Moses Day „ 

TV. TV". Greenough „ 

Theodore Lyman „ 

N. A. Thompson „ 

¥m. Amory „ 

H. P. Sturgis „ 

E. Richmond Brookline. 

D. L. Webster Boston. 

John H. Wilkins 

Zachary Allen Providence. 

Dr. Jacob Bigelow Boston. 

Frank S. Storer „ 

John B. Henck „ 

Andrew T. Hall , 

J. H. Blake 

Thomas Lamb „ 

Hon. G. TV. Warren Charlestown 

Stephen Fairbanks Boston. 

R. C. Greenleaf „ 

C. Allen Browne „ 

James Ritchie „ 

Dr. A. A. Hayes „ 



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Wm. A. Richardson Lowell. 

Jos. N. Howe Boston. 

Geo. M. Dexter „ 

Thos. Sherwin „ 

Dr. Chas. E. Ware 

J. Russel Jencks „ 

Carlos Pierce „ 

John T. Heard „ 

Dr. Geo. W. Dennet „ 

C. H. Waters Clinton. 

Geo. M. Atwater Springfield. 

Thos. D. Shimmin Boston. 

Chas. F. Shimmin „ 

G. H. Shaw „ 

James Savage, jun „ 

Edward S. Rand .■ „ 

J. A. Higginson „ 

Dr. Henry Wheatland Salem. 

Amos A. Lawrence . '. . Boston. 

David Sears, jun 

J. J. Dixwell 

A. M. Gay v • • 

E. S. Ritchie 

r 

Richard Whitten 

O. W. Peabody 

James Edward Oliver Lynn. 

Alpheus Crosby Salem. 

L. C. Parton Holyoke. 

Sanborne Tenny Auburndale. 

D. E. Eddy Boston. 

James Hayward „ 

W. C. Cabot . . 

Edward S. Philbrick 

Otis Clapp „ 

E. Ritchie Dorr ,, 

D. W. Holmes Cambridge. 

Geo. F. Haskins Boston. 

D. G. Lang Lowell. 

Joshua G. Wilbur Boston. 

Col. Thos. Aspinwall „ 



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J. N. Turner Brookline. 

Dr. C. T. Jackson Boston. 

¥m. Edson „ 

J. Herbert Shedd „ 

George Snell „ 

John Stevens „ 

Dr. John Homans „ 

James S. Munroe Lexington, Mass. 

W. H. Brooks Boston. 

James A. Dupee „ 

Henry K. Oliver Salem. 

Dr. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff Boston. 

Edward Atkinson 

Jos. S. Fay 

Jas. McGregor 

K. M. Mason 

Chas. Nowell 

Avery Plumer 

Joseph C. Delano New Bedford. 

John G. Webster Boston. 

Alfred A. Hall 

J. Baxter „ 

Edward C. Cabot „ 

Dr. John Ware „ 

James B. Francis Lowell. 

J. W. J. Jenks Middleborough. 

W. H. Leany Boston. 

Dr. Chas. D. Homans . . i 

Henry B. Rogers 

John Duncan 

W. J. Whitwell 

Geo. B. Upton 

Samuel H. Walley 

Dr. Thomas M. Brewer 

Greely S. Curtis 

Patrick Riley 

C. M. Warren 

Ch. K. DiUaway 

Rev. Chas. F. Barnard 

Henry J. Tudor 



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Aaron P. Richardson Boston. 

James Dennie „ 

Franklin Forbes Clinton. 

Prof. Bowen Cambridge. 

Prof. Pierce „ 

Pres. Felton „ 

Prof. Horsford „ 

Prof. Eliot 

Hon. Joel Parker „ 

Rev. Dr. Blagden Boston. 

W. S. Bullard 

Thos. H. Blake 

Jas. C. Converse „ 

Hon. Jona. Preston „ 

Rev. Ezra S. Gannett „ 

Aug. A. Noyes „ 

Sidney Homer . „ 

Henry Williams „ 

Geo. W. Tuxbury „ 

H. Bigelow „ 

John C. Dalton „ 

Dr. Samuel A. Green „ 

Geo. Odiorne „ 

Levi L. Willcutt „ 

Wm. P. Parrott „ 

Dr. Wm. E. Coale 

J. D. Runkle Dedham. 

David Bryant % Boston. 

Chas. W. Folsom „ 

James Slade „ 

Chas. B. Hall 

Edwin P. Whipple 

Zoheth S. Durfee New Bedford. 

Joseph E. Brown Boston. 

Chas. H. Bigelow New Bedford. 

Chas. G. Loring Boston. 

Prof. Oliver W. Holmes „ 

Hon. Emory Washburn . Cambridge. 

David Buck Boston. 

Causten Browne „ 



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J. Huntington Wolcott Boston. 

Samuel Hooper 

C. R. Mower 

Thomas Boyd 

Alex. R. Esty 

Rev. Andrew Bigelow 

Rev. Wm. R. Alger 

Edward Atkinson 

G. W. Briggs Auburndale. 

Hon. John P. Putnam Boston. 

Dr. Geo. H. Lyman . . • „ 

Dr. John B. Alley 

C. C. Jewett „ 

Dr. Henry W. Williams „ 

John Pearce „ 

Alfred Peabody Salem. 

Joseph Vila, jun Roxbury. 

Edward Hixon Cambridge. 

D. Sparhawk Boston. 

A. W. Spencer Dorchester. 

Jas. P. Farley Chelsea. 

Hon. Geo. P. Sanger Boston. 

John C. Boyd „ 



APPENDIX. 



MEMORIAL 

OF THE 

tfjjmraitttt jrf §i«oi£& Institatas at Stum ani §xt$. 

1861. 

The undersigned, a Committee representing various Institu- 
tions devoted to Science and the Arts, have been instructed 
to memorialize your honorable body, to the effect as fol- 
lows : — 

First, That you will be pleased to grant to the Association 
of Industrial Art and Science, recently formed, a Charter and 
corporate existence, under the title of the " Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology," empowering it to carry into effect 
the plan and purposes of a Society of Arts, a Museum of 
Arts, and a School of Industrial Science, as set forth in the 
Report prepared by your memorialists, and herewith sub- 
mitted. 

Second, That you will set apart and assign a portion of 
the Back-Bay lands, in a continuous space, for the use and 
accommodation of the Boston Society of Natural History, the 
Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and the above-named 
Institute of Technology, under such conditions as in your 
judgment may best promote the practical objects of these 
Institutions, and conduce to the educational and industrial 
interests of the Commonwealth. 

For the details of the organization and purposes of these 
several societies, and of their claims upon your favorable 
consideration as connected with the science, industry, and 
education of the State, your memorialists beg to call your 
attention to the printed pamphlets and other documents here- 
with submitted to your inspection. 



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In regard to the previous action of the Legislature on this 
subject, your memorialists would beg to state, that, two years 
ago, they submitted to your honorable body a petition of like 
general import with the present, which was reported on 
favorably by the Committee to whom it was referred ; that 
they renewed their application, in a more specific shape, to 
the last General Court; and that the bill reported to the 
lower House, and rejected by the Senate at the close of 
the session, was, on motion to reconsider, laid upon the 
table. 

Your memorialists deem it important to add, that during 
the past year, while endeavoring to make their plans widely 
known throughout the Commonwealth, and while maturing 
an organization for the proposed Institute of Technology, 
they have received from various quarters the amplest evi- 
dences of public approbation and sympathy, not only towards 
the last-named feature of the plan, but in regard to the 
objects and claims of the Boston Society of Natural History 
and the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, in connection 
with the general purpose of a collocation of these and kindred 
Institutions in a continuous space upon the Back-Bay lands. 

Your memorialists, therefore, feel no hesitation in renew- 
ing their application to your honorable body, in a modified 
and more perfect form ; trusting the issue to your wise judg- 
ment of the merits of their plan, and to the ever-recognized 
claims of education, industry, and science upon the fostering 
favor of the State. 

WILLIAM B. ROGERS, Chairman. 



Marshall P. Wilder, 
Samuel H. Gookin, 
M. D. Ross, 
B. S. Rotch, 
R. C. Waterston, 
Alfred Ordwat, 
Alex. H. Rice, 
E. S. Tobey, 
James M. Beebe, 



Dr. S. Cabot, Jun., 
G. W. Pratt, 
Amos Binney, 
Dr. S. Kneeland, Jun., 
Charles L. Flint, 
J. D. Philbrick, 
Geo. B. Emerson, 
Erastus B. Bigelow, 
Charles H. Dalton, 

Committee. 



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PETITIONS IN AID. 



BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in General Court assembled. 

The Boston Society of Natural History joins in the memorial 
of the Committee of citizens of the Commonwealth, whereof 
Marshall P. Wilder is Chairman, asking for a reservation of 
land from the Commonwealth's territory on the Back Bay, 
for the use of Associated Institutions of Science and Art; 
and petitions your honorable body, that the prayer of the 
said memorial may be granted. 

And the said Boston Society of Natural History respect- 
fully represents, in its own behalf, that the great value and 
purely disinterested character of the services which it has 
already rendered during the past thirty years, and which it 
is still rendering, to the cause of liberal education in this 
Commonwealth, as is fully set forth in the said memorial, 
constitute a pre-eminent title to such aid and encouragement 
from the State, in extending and perpetuating its usefulness, 
as is contemplated in the said memorial. 

JEFFRIES WYMAN, 

Pres. of the Boston Society of Nat. History. 
Boston, Jan. 12, 1860. 



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BOSTON BOARD OF TRADE. 



To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives o 
Massachusetts , in General Court assembled. 

The Boston Board of Trade would hereby respectfully peti- 
tion in aid of a memorial now before your honorable body ; 
in which a Committee, representing the interests of Agricul- 
ture, Horticulture, Natural Sciences, Commerce, Manufac- 
tures, the Mechanic and Fine Arts, and General Education, 
ask for a reservation of a portion of the Back-Bay lands, for 
the use of Associated Institutions engaged in promoting these 
several interests. 

While this Board cannot be indifferent to the general plan, 
and all the objects indicated in the memorial already referred 
to, its interest has special reference to the department which 
pertains to Commerce and Manufactures, the promotion of 
which is one of the principal objects of its organization. The 
necessity and value, to the community, of Institutions like 
those contemplated in the memorial, must be obvious ; and 
their influence will have a tendency to aid in widely diffusing 
amongst the masses of our population valuable and practical 
knowledge, and thus promote the welfare and prosperity of 
the State. 

Your petitioners would, therefore, earnestly request the 
favorable attention of your honorable body to the memorial, 
and would respectfully ask that its objects may be granted. 

LORENZO SABINE, Secretary. 
E. S. TOBEY, President 

Office, Board of Trade, Boston, Feb. 6, 1860. 



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AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. 



The American Academy of Arts and Sciences respectfully 
and urgently recommend to the favorable consideration of 
your honorable body the petition of Marshall P. Wilder and 
others in behalf of Associated Institutions of Arts and Science, 
asking for a reservation of Back-Bay lands, &c. 

They do this because, in their judgment, the measure 
prayed for would tend directly and strongly to promote the 
scientific, the educational, and the industrial interests of 
the Commonwealth. 

Because it would be a testimony to the public benefit, de- 
rivable from the acquisition, the diffusion, and the use of 
knowledge, which would be alike honorable to the Legisla- 
ture and the Commonwealth. 

Because it would receive the approbation of all who know 
— and they will be all who inquire into the facts — that the 
institutions which it proposes to assist are actively engaged in 
scientific discovery, and in efforts to learn all that is disco- 
vered elsewhere ; and to apply all knowledge, as far as possi- 
ble, to the various industrial pursuits, upon the success of 
which depends the prosperity, not only of those engaged in 
them, but of all who are in any way connected with the per- 
sons so employed ; and, therefore, of the State. 

Because they regard it as a measure which will harmonize 
and co-operate with all those which have been or can be 
adopted for general education ; and will concur with them 
in providing such means of mental improvement, that every 
mind may have its due development, and no talent be wasted 
and suppressed because the means for its culture and exercise 
are not within its reach ; and will assist in offering to every 



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man an opportunity of becoming all that his capacity, and his 
willingness to improve and use his capacity, permit him to be. 
And they regard this as the end which must be reached 
before the educational system of Massachusetts can be con- 
sidered as complete. 

All which is respectfully submitted by the Fellows of the 
Academy, through the undersigned, who are a Committee 
appointed for this purpose. 

Theophiltis Parsons. 
Charles G. Loring. 

Charles Jackson, Jun. 

Boston, Feb. 18, 1860. 



MASSACHUSETTS CHAKITABLE MECHANICS' 
ASSOCIATION. 



To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, in 
General Court assembled. 

The undersigned, the Government of the Massachusetts Cha- 
ritable Mechanics' Association, would respectfully petition 
your honorable body in aid of a " Memorial " now before 
the Legislature, asking for a grant of land on the Back Bay 
for the use of the Associated Institutions of Science and Art. 
Fully approving the general plan as a means of public edu- 
cation of inestimable value, the Society we represent feels 
a special and lively interest in the Third Section, in which 
would be associated the Institutions cultivating the Mechanic 
Arts. Knowing by experience the advantages of mutual in- 
terchange of ideas in the advancement of the mechanic arts, 
and conscious of the disadvantage we labor under for the 
want of Polytechnic Institutions which shall bring Science 



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and Art into closer communion, we shall hail with pleasure 
and satisfaction the establishment of such as this memorial 
proposes on Section Three. 

Believing that the objects of our organization, and the 
interests of the Mechanic Arts throughout the State, would 
be promoted by the reservation asked for, we would earnestly 
request your favororable consideration of the prayer of the 
petitioners ; and, as in duty bound, will ever pray. 



PELHAM BONNEY, President. 



Fred. H. Stimpson. 
Al. Sanborn. 
Wm. W. Wheildon. 
Charles Woodbury. 
Osmyn Brewster. 
Jos. T. Bailey. 



Nath. Adams. 
L. Miles Standish. 
Joseph L. Bates. 
James Tolman. 
J. C. Hubbard. 
Ansel Lothrop. 



NEW-ENGLAND SOCIETY. 



To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of 
Massachusetts, in General Court assembled. 



The New-England Society for the Promotion of Manufactures 
and Mechanic Arts, instituted for the purpose of diffusing 
knowledge in these important branches of American industry, 
would respectfully petition your honorable body in aid of a 
memorial presented to the Legislature by a Committee of gen- 
tlemen representing the various Associations of Science and 
the Arts, whereof the Hon. Marshall P. Wilder is Chairman, 
asking for a reservation of land on the Back Back, in the city 
of Boston, for the use of the Associated Institutions. 



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The New-England Society finds the subject very ably pre- 
sented in the above memorial now before your honorable 
body, and entirely approves of the arguments therein con- 
tained ; and, should the reservation be made, will endeavor 
to make the department in which its members are interested 
a benefit and an honor to the State. 

Your petitioners would respectfully represent that it comes 
within the especial province of this Society to aid in the es- 
tablishment of such Institutions as are contemplated in the 
Third Section of the plan of the general memorial ; namely, 
that relating to Mechanics, Manufactures, and Commerce. 
There can be no doubt, in our opinion, that a large space will 
in the future be needed for the uses of this department ; and 
we fully concur in the views expressed in the memorial of 
the Committee, that at least one square will be necessary for 
the accommodation of the Institutions of Mechanics, Manu- 
factures, and Commerce. 

We would, therefore, respectfully and earnestly request 
that the petition of the general memorial may be granted ; 
firmly believing that the industrial interests of the State, 
which we are instituted to promote, will be signally benefited 
by this act in all coming time. 

DEMING JARVES, President. 



J. Wiley Edmands. 
Benj. E. Bates. 
James Read. 
Tyler Batcheller. 
Thomas P. Rich. 
Tho. Motley. 



J. A. Lowell. 
Henry J. Gardner. 

E. H. Eldridge. 
Amos A. Lawrence. 
Jas. M. Beebe. 

F. Skinner. 



PETER BUTLER, Secretary. 



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STATE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION. 



At a meeting of the State Teachers' Association, held at 
Concord, December, 1860, the following resolutions were 
" cordially received and unanimously adopted : " — 

Resolved, That this Association regards with hearty interest and 
sympathy the purposes set forth by the Committee of Associated 
Institutions of Science and Arts, acting in behalf of the Boston So- 
ciety of Natural History, the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 
and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology now about to be 
established, wherein it is proposed to enlarge the facilities of popu- 
lar instruction in Natural Science and its applications, and to pro- 
vide a system of education suited to the development of intelligent 
industry and the promotion of liberal culture in connection with 
industrial pursuits. 

Resolved, That, in our opinion, the largest general benefits will be 
secured from the museums, conservatories, and other means of in- 
struction, of these several institutions, not only by having them placed 
in the midst of the dense population, and facilities of access, of our 
metropolis, but by bringing them into relations of close proximity and 
mutual illustration; and that, therefore, we cordially approve the 
proposed plan of setting apart a continuous portion of the Back-Bay 
lands for their accommodation. 



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